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NAUGATUCK -- Two Waterbury teens were arrested Wednesday afternoon after police said they stole a car belonging to ICES, a borough-based organization serving people with cognitive disorders.

Tyquai Young, 18, of 1 Crystal Terrace, and a 16-year-old boy whose name was not released, were charged with participating in the theft, which occurred at about 12:30 p.m., police said. They and two others took the Ford Focus, marked "carrying school children," from the parking lot of Cumberland Farms on North Main Street, where an employee had taken it to be refueled, police said.

The car had a tracking device and police were able to trace it to the parking lot of a condominium complex on Shirley Street in Waterbury, said Lt. Bryan Cammarata of the Naugatuck Police Department.

When Cammarata and Waterbury officers arrived, a group of four males in their teens or early twenties ran from a 2008 Audi A4, said Acting Deputy Chief Christopher Corbett of the Waterbury Police Department. The Audi had been reported stolen from a gas station in Ansonia, Cammarata said.

After a foot chase, officers arrested Young near the intersection of West Main Street and Grandview Avenue, while the younger teen was arrested at Highland and Starview Avenues, Corbett said. Both were charged with third-degree larceny and interfering with an officer.

Police believe the group is connected to more motor vehicle thefts in Waterbury and surrounding towns, Corbett said. The investigation is ongoing and more arrests are anticipated, Corbett said.

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al.cap wrote on Jun 13, 2013 8:41 AM:

" hmm....stealing cars, running from the cops, are these more 'good kids making bad choices'? "

" All these recent articles highlight the "achievements" of so many of the fine students in the Waterbury schools! When you look at low performance and wonder why, remember all these tributes you see in the papers! Now I see why they don't study for tests or do homework, they are too busy boosting cars and running from cops! Sad!!! "

" These punks are connected to so many thefts. My debit card which was in my stolen car from waterbury was found in a stolen car from cheshire! Also there was a definitely stolen portable DVD player in my recovered car if anyone is missing one of those. I dont understand what they need so many cars for and how they think they're not going to get caught driving around areas where they steal cars they clearly can't afford from. "

" WHO ARE ANY OF U IGNORANT,DISGUSTING PPL TO COMMENT ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR MOTHERS OR THEM BEING BORN????NONE OF.U ARE PERFECT SO TEENAGERS ALSO MAKE MISTAKES......FYI:DID U KNOW THEIR PARENTS WORK JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE???SO,BEFORE U.JUDGE PPL....LOOK N THE MIRROR ..MAYBE YOUR MOTHERS SHOULDNT HAVE HAD YA"LL...ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE.."NOT ANY OF U PERFECT PEOPLE" "

" Waterbury minorities. Stealing from working people. What do you expect from kids who've been giving EVERYTHING they have FREE from us?? We pay their rent, their dr bills, their food, their kool-aid, their cell phones, buy them cars. So when they see a car they want, why wouldn't they feel they can just take it?When they get caught, they somehow "afford" expensive Fat Marty as their lawyer and the judges let them go.

When they steal from the wrong person, they will be put in the ground.

If our forefathers made one mistake, it was allowing the slave trade in America. These descendants of slaves have allowed themselves to be enslaved again and our country is going in the crapper because of it.

" @tameka- as a parent of two young men who never stole anything, or ended up in jail, i am qualified to comment on parenting. this kid's parents(?) did a crappy job. apparently, he's stolen more than one car. he's a felon. if my kids were felons, i would feel like a failure, and surely wouldn't use the 'bad choices' line of crap. they raised a criminal. that's a bad thing.

it's not a racial thing, or an economic thing. if your kids are in prison, felons, out doing crime, robbing, stealing and raping, you have failed as a parent, period. you didn't teach them right from wrong, and society will now be burdened with your failure. "

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